Quotes About Fortitude

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opportunity. He

To accept it takes both understanding and courage.

I'll be patient. I can't even count the number of times I've had to be patient when it comes to you. With every passing year, one's store of patience inevitably grows. It's the only resource that grows. All the others tend to wither.

Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Citra slumped in her chair. I don't fail, she said.

the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Let us celebrate the stupidity of our endurance.

what matter most is how well you walk trough fire.

But it's all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in their shoes. The guys who slept on the floor.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand.

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

well, I've been bombed out of better places than this

Possibile che fossi davvero idiota, dopotutto? Ero io che andavo a cercarmele, le rogne? Possibile. Era possibile che fossi davvero subnormale, che per me fosse già una fortuna riuscire a sopravvivere.

I was going to get the beatings anyhow so I might as well have the fun.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

If I were a believer in the theory of "rock bottom," this could very well have been it. As it stands, I am not a believer. Rock bottom is for sissies; I've hit rock bottom dozens of times. I've woken up next to a billy goat, for Christ's sake. You don't just give up!

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

Puisque j'ai survécu à cette année-là, disait-il toujours, je survivrai à n'importe quoi.

interrupt the

Endure. In enduring, grow strong.